K Hub

The Cloud Assistant for the Teams & Individual Professionals.

The Tools for the knowledge workers to organize their knowledge and information with the right structure that make sense.

* A low-cost cloud-based solution with privacy protection based on special design using open-source technology.

A Brief Summary

 

Features Details
Cloud-based Application
  • Carry everything along with you whenever you stay connected
  • Cross platform
  • Cross device
Menu System
  • A Normal Menu System
  • A Taxonomy-to-Menu System (TaxoMenu)
Slide-out Control Panel
  • Available only when needed - maximize visible space when not needed
  • Scenario-based TaxoMenu
  • Reach target within 3 clicks
Content Types
  • Tools (private) & showcase (public) pages with scenario-based TaxoMenu
  • Photo albums
  • Conventional basic web pages & articles
  • More content types can be easily added by customization
Classification & search
  • Generic tagging
  • Easily customizable classifications
  • Controlled or free-to-add classification types
  • Multiple classifications for each type of content
  • Hierarchical classification structure available
Security
  • Public & private visibility, with user-selectable option
  • Undisclosed areas - author-only visibility
  • Role-based accessibility & visibility for team settings
Design Philosophy
  • Visual spacing - maximum visible screen for works
  • Popup - for focus
  • Search and Focus - 2 states of work.  Once target information is located, no need further jumping around
  • Special system built to fit the needs of knowledge repository or knowledge base setup
Hosting Platform
  • Shared hosting - low-cost platform suitable for beginners of individuals, can be trained to self-manage the platform
  • Cloud-based VPS - cloud-based low-cost platform suitable for committed users or teams, require system maintenance & support
  • In-house hosting - built on in-house servers with in-house or external IT team support
  • Personal computers - for privacy and personal ownership
Technology
  • The Khub system is designed based on:
    • World-famous enterprise-level stable open-source content management system
    • Well established web technology
    • Integration with other web-based technology & resources available
  • Much shorter system building cycle
    • Typically 15% - 20% of the time compared with traditional system building, hence cost reduction
    • A lot of readily available modules for feature enhancements
  • Upgradability and scalability
    • Continuous free upgrades available as in open-source technology
  • Built on BYOS methodology
    • Build-as-you-GO (BayGO) approach - a design thinking process
    • Focus in business needs and user experience, and what make-sense
    • A skills that can be learned by non-technical people without IT background
    • Flexible modifications and customizable

 

Note: some features might require further customization to fit individual's requirements

A Brief Summary

 

What Details
Fast Access Tools
  • Frequently used tools
  • Cheat sheets
  • Check lists
  • Privacy protected
Marketing & Sales Materials
  • Well structured information
  • Videos and pictures in logical layout
  • Popup videos and pictures to blow the minds
  • Public, shareable with a link
Presentation & Demonstration
  • New style presentation refreshing the audiences
  • Flexible content structure creation to visualize:
    • Overview - overall structure
    • Sections in tabs - unlimited paragraphs in each section
    • Paragraphs - one message at a time, with graphics, video & simple bullets
    • Workflow - steps in sequence
    • Pop-up screens to draw focus
  • Sustained attention for audience by forwarding the link
  • CTA Buttons - hidden attraction for connection & opportunities
Knowledge Base
  • When it is more than your brain can handle
  • Strong taxonomy support
  • Build simple intelligence
Information Structure
  • A separate & dedicated structure for each type of knowledge content
  • Rich in-page structure support
  • Customizable to fit your habit, style, scenarios and thought structure

The purpose of a knowledge repository is not only to record information and facilitate finding them like Google.  More importantly, it is to grow our knowledge, build capacity and develop talents, both for teams and individuals.

This K Hub System is designed and built based on the BYOS practice, which is a method of system building using world-class enterprise grade open-source technology.

This is a web-based technology, like most many other systems, which is already very feature-rich, reliable and well adopted  technology.  Even though the same technology can be used to build websites, but that's not the purpose of this knowledge repository system.  The advantage of using a well accepted technology is that it is already well developed and is reliable.  The main purpose of a knowledge repository is:

  • Through technology, we employ this system as our tools for knowledge repository.
  • We can use the system to record data, information and knowledge, however;
  • More importantly use it to help us build our capacity, grow our knowledge and talent
  • Not only for the individuals, but also for teams.

Why a knowledge repository can help us to achieve these?  Because:

  • it provides the digital space to allow us to organize our knowledge
  • which requires a very flexible presentation format and structure
  • while organizing our knowledge, we will start to think what and how it make sense

When you organize your knowledge, you will start to go into structure, classifications, workflows, and map to your real life situations.

So it is not the system that make things work.  It is you organizing the knowledge that matters and make sense of everything.  The system provides the necessary structures, formats and flexibilities that you will need in due course.

You will also find that, when things start to organize, it is also a matter of matching the visible structure of content in the system to the invisible structure in your brain.

The result is, you'll find you understand more, better and deeper, big pictures and details, and perhaps also discover even a lot more.  You'll become more powerful and talented, and that is capacity building.

A good knowledge repository will support you to go through these, and that's why and how the features in this system are designed.  It is much more than a website, even though it looks like a website.  The system is just a start in your journey, but of course requires your effort and practice.  At the end, it's the journey that you enjoy which might become your life-changer.

You'll need some learning how to make use of the features to create your own structure, presentation and formats.  That's what will be covered in the basic and advanced workshop on content creation.

Going further to the next milestone, you'll find that you need customization, and that's normal. We'll support you at a surprisingly low cost.  The good news is, the system is built using opening source.  The technology is free, and customization is fast and easy compared with traditional IT systems.

 

The Technology

This system is built based on the BYOS practice.  People without IT background can still learn how to build systems using open-source technology.  For those who are really interested in acquiring the technology can feel free to talk to us.  We offer hands-on practical training BYOS workshops.